Contemporary Meanings of Endurance

<p>This book critically analyses the concept of endurance from different theoretical conceptual methodological and empirical perspectives. </p><p>The first part of the book takes a closer look at endurance by examining how it relates to concepts such as resilience perseverance and perdurance. By analysing how these concepts overlap but differ we reach a better understanding of what constitutes endurance. Furthermore endurance is reconfigured as a as a mundane aspect of everyday life. The latter part of the book focuses on embodied experiences of endurance more specifically on endurance running walking and (physical) performances. The different contributions focus on the meanings values and attributes that people ascribe to endurance in various socio-cultural contexts. The book uncovers practices environments and discourses in which endurance is applied and manifested from drought-affected communities in rural Australia to professional endurance runners in Ethiopia as well as migrants in Greece and performance acts in domestic spaces in the United Kingdom and beyond. </p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars of movement sciences sports studies mobilities leisure studies and resilience studies. </p>